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creative posting is a test site for posting articles through services like posterous.com. Previously we have had similar test sites like creative combinations, which was used to test the combination of email, mailing lists like Google Groups for publishing purposes.

Check out the sites we use to document our trials and results like

• bloggerCMS.com
• BeeCMS.blogspot.com
• qompute.net

as well as our production vehicles like phototicker.posterous.com

And our business projects and companies like

• cidentigo.com for corporate publishing
• tickertxt.org for mobilising regional markets

Sorry for the (now deleted) test posts on qompute and 1moment :-)

Good to know. When sending a general post@posterous.com, your posterous group blogs will not receive the article. And I agree, it would not seem logical if they did. So therefore the #-hashtag addressing in the email works only for the blogs listed in the autopost settings. Also logical. And that's why originally this post hadn't been autoposted to creativeposting, ok.

But when sending a post@creativeposting.posterous.com, Posterous treats my post as a generic post for all autoposts including the ones for this group. Mmmhh, not sure about the logic there, but that's why initially the tests messages of creativeposting had been published in 1moment.org and qompute.net.

Anyway as this "forward of the original post is addressed to #creativeposting@creativeposting.posterous.com this autopost should work.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Moritz Schroeder
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Subject: Sorry for the (now deleted) test posts on qompute and 1moment :-)
To: #qompute@qompute.posterous.com, #creativeposting@posterous.com, post@posterous.com

[As I am writing this post as an email, I always am tempted to start writing something like "Dear Reader" :-) ]

When testing, something always can have unintentional results. In this case, I have (and still am) exploring Posterous, a service that some call light-blog or tumbl-blog. The most interesting feature is the possibility to send a post via email. Nothing unique about that function, Blogger, Wordpress and also Tumblr and Soup.io have it - as I guess have most blog-like publishing services.

What makes it special is the way Posterous handles attached files, the way you can fine-tune autoposting to other size by playing with email address, such as flickr+facebook@posterous.com, or #qompute@posterous.com, the way you can include tags for example by adding ((tags:qompute, 1moment)) in subject title line.

Enough about that, so what happened regarding my erroneously published posts on 1moment.org and qompute.net? To play around with posterous, I created a special blog for this purpose: creativeposting.posterous.com including it's cousins on Blogger and Wordpress, ie creativeposting.blogspot.com and creativeposting.wordpress.com. 

I enabled creativeposting.posterous.com as a group blog. On the groups details I added the two external cousin blogs. As the group email address is post@creativeposting.posterous.com I assumed wrongly that the autoposting settings of my general Posterous account would be ignored. They were not, lesson learned.

I have deleted qompute from my general posterous autposts and moved it to the group settings of qompute.posterous.com. The addresses I am using for this are:

• #qompute@qompute.posterous.com (to forward the post to qompute.net)
• #creativeposting@posterous.com (for testing purposes, because I am not sure if I have to use the full group email address including the host name)
• post@posterous.com (to apologise to you for the various meaningless posts :-)

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Wenn noch der letzte Baustein fehlt ... Eine Grußkarte von Ralph

2009/12/14 LeibnizX <info@leibnizx.de>

Eine Grußkarte von XXX

das ist ein Test für personalisierte Grusskarten

LG Ralph

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Another test bites the post

This is forwarding the previous post to the same publishing email address post@creativeposting.posterous.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: xxxxx;
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:55 AM
Subject: Another test bites the post ((tags: qompute, email tags))
To: post <post@creativeposting.posterous.com>

I am now trying some camel codes which allow me to tag this article. So here we go: in the subject line of this email I added

((tags: qompute, email tags))

So let's see how that works...

And remember, all this is for the purpose of an article on qompute.net.

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Another test bites the post

This is a reply to the posterous mail. I am curious what posterous keeps of all the typical email response content. The subject line remains unchanged.

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Another test bites the post

I am now trying some camel codes which allow me to tag this article. So here we go: in the subject line of this email I added

((tags: qompute, email tags))

So let's see how that works...

And remember, all this is for the purpose of an article on qompute.net.  

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creatively sent via email...

This quote has been edited into the text after the publication via posterous. So I hope that I succeed to syndicating it to blogger and wordpress.

The goal is to publish this post on wordpress and blogger as well.

Well, all this is done with the better of mankind in mind, not to forget an article explaining all this on qompute.net :-)

And here some nice photos. You get extra points, if you guess the city :-)

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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